Composing-room cabinet



May 31, 1927. STEPHENS 0,678

comfosme ROOM CABINET Filed June 5. 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 fizzled/fir; 3 W1 22:92:22 Sie eras. y W2??? May 31, 1927.

w. STEPHENS COMPOSING ROOM CABINET 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed June 5.. 1926 casefbeing indicated at 10, hereinabove and directly to the rear of the mouth of the lead and slug rack 4. It may include a tray proper which is removable fromthe cabinet .top, as illustrated, or the various compartments may be built into the cabinet top.

Said coi'npartlnents of the spacing mate rialcase 10 may be of any desired size, nuinher, and. arrangement but preferably and, as shown, top opening compartments are provided for all sizcsvot thin brass and. copper spaces,leads inlengths from 1 to- 9 ems by ens, and for six sizes of spaces and quads. The spacing. mz'rtcrial case illustrated comprises four rows otcompartments, the two roar rows 11, 11 accommodating the. spaces and quads, With six compartments toreach of six sizes, .thewthird row from; the rear, 12, having the short length leads, and the front row 13 receiving the. thin brass and copper spaces. Said spacing material case or trap is desirably supported in a somewhat inclined position substantially as illustrated, to assist the compositor in'locating and selecting the materials from it, appropriate numbering or index being provided, as at i I 1 In the form shown in Figs. 1 to 3 the ca binct top includes in addition to the work bank 5, leadand slug: rack'f, and the spacig material case 10, each extending substantially the full length of the cabinet, a bin 15 having a row of :liront opening compartments for metaliquotations, metal or iron furniture, or the likes Said. bin 15; may constitute a buiilt-in portion ofthe cabinettop, or be constructedras a. removable unit, preterably located over and to the rear of, the

spacing material case andvertieally above the rear portionso'f. the compartments 8 of the lead and slug rack. It may be arranged to hold any desired number of quotations and, as illustrated, includes fourteen compartn'ients which may receive a corresponding number of sizes of quotations, for example, the following standard sizes-2 X 3; QSMHQXMQXS;3x3g3x4g3x5; 3x6; l xll x 544: X 6; 5X5; 5 x 6; 6 x 6. The individual bins may be appropriately numbered' as illustrated at 16.

From the above description, taken in con- 3 nection withthe drawings, itwill be understood that I. have provided a type cabinet top having a closed rear face and in which all of the several elements are accessible from the front or working. side. These elements may be arranged otherwise. than as illustrated, particularly with regard to their disposition-from front to rear of thecabinet top. For example, the lead and slugracl; might be atltheextreme fronttaceoii the cabinet top and the work-bank positioned above it,

or the position of the spacing nnrteria'l case and the work-bank might be interchanged. In some instances it is not necessary to have the quotation supply immediately in front of the compositor and in such caset-hc bin 15 might be omitted. Such a modiliedrconstruction is illustrated in Fig. 4 wherein the .cabinectop includes a work-bank 5', lead and sing rack .7 case 10.

p A cabinet top such as described, and which is adaptable to any standard or other cabinet enables a compositor to work at, andobtain all necessary materials from, one side oi. a single cabinet. It thus increases the silt ciency in a con'iposing room and in addition makes it possible to employ floor space otherwise not available for this purpose, such as againstwalls or at the ends of otherwise incomplete rows ofjcabinets of the divided type heretofore employed.

My invention is not limitedto theparticular embodiments thereof shown and described herein, its scope being set forth in the following claims.

Claims:

1. In combination with a type cabiilet having one or more tiers of type cases accessible from the cabinet front a Working top for said cabinet comprising at base and spacing material adapted to seat on the cabinet, a p'ernnmently positioned, exposed Work-bank, afllcad and slug rack, and a spacingmaterialcase,

said work-bank, rack and case being all positionfld for access from the same side of the cabinet. and being so mounted on said case that said side is the cabinet ftont, Whcrcbr the tiers of type cases and all ofsaid elitiments. of the top are readily accessible to a compositor facing the cabinet.

2. A working top for a type cabinet having one or more tiers ottype cases comprising, in. combination, a base, a rear wall and end-walls, anda working front, 1saidilfroht being providedwith a \vork-bank, a lead and slug rack, and'a spacing material case, each extending longitudinally substantially the tulldistance between said end walls and all readily accessible from said front and working side.

3.111 con'lbination with a type cabinet having one or more tiers off typo cases accessible from the cabinet front, a working top for said cabinet com ing hate adapted to seat on the cabinet, a longitudinal work-bank extending substaut'allythe full length of said base, a lead and slug rack, a spacingmaterial case, and a quotation bin, said work'bank, rack, case and bin being all. positioned for-access from the same side ofthe cabinet and being so mounted on said base that said side is the cabinet front.

l. A working top fora type cabinehcomprising, in combinatioina base, a rear wall and end" walls, and a working front,said

neeean frontbeing provided with a Work-bank extending substantially the full length of said base, a longitudinally extending lead and slug rack, and a longitudinally extending spacing material case, said Work-bank, lead and slug rack, and spacing material case being all readily accessible from said front and Working side.

5. In a top for a type cabinet, a base, a rear Wall, and end Walls, an exposed workbank substantially Wholly Within the confines of said base, a longitudinal lead and slug rack spaced vertically from said Workbank, and a spacing material case on a level different from that of said Work bank and said lead and slug rack.

6. In combination With a type cabinet having one or more tiers of type cases aecessible from the cabinet front a Working top for said cabinet comprising a base adapted to seat. on the cabinet, an inclined Work-bank extending the length of the top, a multiplicity of front opening compartments side by side forming a rack for leads and slugs, and a series of top opening compartments arranged in a plurality of for ready access rows lengthwise the top and affording storage for thin brass and copper spaces, spaces and quads, each of said elements positioned by a compositor at the cab inet front.

7. In combination with a type cabinet having one or more tiers of type cases ac ce-ssible from the cabinet front, a Working top for said cabinet comprising a base adapted to seat on the cabinet, an inclined Work-bank extending the length of the top, a multiplicity of front opening compartmentsside by side forming a rack for leads and slugs, a series of top opening compartments arranged in a plurality of rows lengthwise the top and affording storage for thin brass and copper spaces, spaces and quads, and a longitudinal row of front opening compartments constituting a bin for quotations, each of said elements positioned for ready access by a compositor at the cabinet front.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

WILLIAM STEPHENS.

Certificate of Correction.

Patent No. 1,630,678. Granted May 31, 1927, to

VILLIAM STEPHENS.

It is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows: Page 2, line 101, claim 1, for

the Word case read base; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oflice.

Signed and sealed this 21st day of June, A. D. 1927.

[SEAL] M. J. MOORE,

' Acting Oowwm'ssz'oner of Patents. 

